Q&A With McDermott Will's Steven S. Scholes

A. The most challenging case was the representation of a New York Stock Exchange company that became enmeshed in an accounting crisis. The representation was complex and included not only parallel SEC and DOJ investigations, but bankruptcy proceedings as well. The bankruptcy proceedings greatly complicated the defense of the SEC and DOJ investigations because there were objections to a Chapter 11 plan that required evidentiary hearings in bankruptcy court on many of the fundamental...